The Sopranos star Michael Imperioli still doesn’t know how the show ends

The controversial final scene of The Sopranos back in 2007 saw Tony’s life left in the balance, and now one of the show’s stars says he still has no clue what actually happened.

Although it’s considered one of the best shows of all time, the ambiguous ending left many desperate to know just what happened to the family patriarch, played by the late James Gandolfini, when the screen cut to black for a tense ten seconds just before the credits started to roll.

Now, Michael Imperioli, who played Tony’s protégé Christopher Moltisanti, has maintained that he has never been told the conclusion to the series.

Although his character was killed three episodes before the finale by Tony himself after a car accident, Imperioli still thinks about what might have unfolded in that diner.

‘I still do not know and I’ve gone back and forth,’ Moltisanti told Jimmy Fallon when being interviewed on The Tonight Show.

‘I still don’t know what the hell happened, I really don’t.

‘Now I’m saying that the end was just the end. It just ended and there is nothing after and it just went to black.’

Michael Imperioli, James Gandolfini, Tony Sirico, Steve Van Zandt in The Sopranos (Picture: Anthony Neste/Hbo/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

In 2020, Imperioli and his co-star Steve Schirripa starting to delve back into the archives and rewatched the series for their Talking Sopranos podcast.

While they had the creator of The Sopranos David Chase, speak to them about that ending, he still gave little away.

‘We had David on the podcast three times and each time there were little titbits and different things [that he said about the ending],’ he said.

‘He will never [reveal it].’

Chase has previously said that ‘there was nothing definite about what happened’ in the final scene but ‘if you look at the final episode really carefully, it’s all there.’

Imperioli told Fallon that we will likely never know the ending (Picture: NBC Universal)

While Fallon said he was one of the ‘few’ people who felt satisfied with the ending, they agreed that it left people obsessed with discussing what might have unfolded years later.

‘15 years later we are still talking about it and I guess that’s a testament,’ Imperioli said.

Last month Rolling Stone singled out The Sopranos as the best TV show of all time, which Imperioli told Fallon was ‘very, very cool’.

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He also shared that he is working on a project with Chase and Schirripa, but revealed little.

‘We are writing a movie together and I cant say what it’s about but when it comes out I will come here and talk about it.’

The Sopranos is streaming on NOW.

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The fate of Tony has been up for debate for years.